And paul riessner



(No Model.)

G. A. BRAGHHAUSBN & P. RIESSNER.

NOTE PLATE FOR MUSIC BOXES.

No. 500,374. Patented June 27, 1893.

lNVENTORS MA TTORNE Y8.

UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE.

GUSTAV A. BRACHHAUSEN, OF IIOBOKEN, NEYV JERSEY, AND PAUL RIESSNER, OF EUTRITZSOH, NEAR LEIPSIO, GERMANY.

NOTE-PLATE FOR MUSIC-BOXES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 500,374, dated June 27, 1893.

Application filed January 24, 1893. Serial No. 459,600. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, GUSTAV A. BEACH- HAUSEN, residing at IlobokenJIudson county, in the State of New Jersey, and PAUL RIESS- NER, residing at Eutritzsch, near Leipsic, German Empire, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Note-Plates or Cylinders for Music-Boxes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a top view of a circular musicplate made in accordance with our invention. Fig. 2 is an enlarged section of the same on the line 2-2 Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is an enlarged detail bottom view of part of the plate.

Our invention relates to that class of music-plates or cylinders which are provided with teeth or projections to directly or indirectly operate the musical tongues, and consist-s mainly in a doubled tooth formed in a single piece out of the body of the plate or cylinder.

In the drawings A represents the body portion of a music-plate, it being understood,

however, that a cylinder, sheet or any other equivalent thereof might be used. The plate is made of flexible metal, alloy or the like.

a a are the teeth which project from the plate A. Each tooth is formed of a single piece struck up from the body A and supported at both ends thereby, as indicated at b 0;

that is to say, an elongated piece is cut from the body of the plate A, leaving one end attached as shown at Z). lhe tooth is then turned up and doubled until its free end 0 reaches to the body A. The tooth a having this construction is well braced by its free end bearing against the plate A. That face of the tooth which meets the plate at Z) is its working face.

Having described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, lS

1. A music-plate or cylinder having doubled teeth a a of single continuous pieces that project from its surface, substantially as described.

2. A music-plate having doubled teeth a a, each tooth having one end suspended from the plate, and its other end turned toward and abutting upon said plate, and each tooth consisting of a single continuous piece, substantially as herein shown and described.

GUSTAV A. BRACHHAUSEN. PAUL RIESSNER.

\Vitnesses as to Gustav Brachhausen:

HARRY M. TURK, L. M. WAcHsoHLAGEE. Vitnesses as to Paul Riessner:

E. VODGTLANDER, CARL BORNGRAEBER. 

